The Other Single Progression Triple Minor
The Other Single Progression Triple Minor is an English Country Dance. It was devised by George Williams in 2025. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 4 bars.
There are two permutations of three couples that lead to single progression triple minor dances. In one the 1s and 2s switch places each time through the dance. In the other the 1s go to 2nd place the 2s to 3rd place, and the 3s to 1st place. As far as I know no one has explored the second format in a triple minor (it works well in a 3 couple longways dance and there are many examples of that).
Probably it has not been explored because of the behavior at the ends. If you want to insure that the 2s get to dance as 1s then you may need to be tricky.
- If the number of couples in your set is divisible by six, then when there are two couples out at the top you must have them change places (and they do not change when there are two out at the bottom)
- If the number of couples in your set is equal to 1 mod 6 (7,13...) then you do not change when there are two couples out at top, nor at bottom. Equally you may change at both top and bottom.
- If the number of couples in your set is equal to 2 mod 6 (8,14...) then you change when there are two couples out at bottom but not at top.
- If the number of couples in your set is equal to 3 mod 6 (9,15...) then you do not change when there are two couples out at top, nor at bottom. Equally you may change at both top and bottom.
- If the number of couples in your set is equal to 4 mod 6 (10,16...) then you change when there are two couples out at bottom but not at top.
- If the number of couples in your set is equal to 5 mod 6 (11,17...) then you do not change when there are two couples out at top, nor at bottom. Equally you may change at both top and bottom.
In other words how you behave when you are out depends on how many couples were in the set when you started, which is unexpected. If you always have 2 mod 6 or 4 mod 6 couples in a set then behavior is similar to that in a normal triple minor dance so it might be best to stick with those lengths.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.
The dances of George Williams (including this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
| 1-2 | 1s cast down as 2s lead up |
| 3-4 | 2s cast to bottom as 3s lead to top |
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